Another visit to Băile Herculane, at the same places where we were in the springtime. My travelling companions were Tamás Németh and Attila Kotán. My major aim was to find the splendid jewel beetle, Cypriacis splendens (Fabricius, 1775). This rare and sumptuous species was captured here in 1968 by the late Csaba Juhász. The extremely hot temperature (sometimes 40°C) made the climbing to the top of the Domogled mountain most difficult, and there were not many insects at all. Because of the dry summer only very few beetles were seen, so we headed for the pine forests with little hope.

Shopping in the main street of the town.

We entered into a gorge at an old quarry, near to the village Pecinişca.

In the morning, reptiles did not hide away from the heat. This is a common wall lizard, Podarcis muralis (Laurenti, 1768).